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Once, everyone earned the same wage, did the jobs they were assigned, and kibbutz elders held the purse strings. Now, says Degania's manager, "we are still protecting the weak, but everyone has the responsibility of earning their own living." Some naive kibbutzniks, he says, need to be taught how...
No school or town could absorb the mass killing of April 16 without scars. But as the students and townies here returned to classes and volleyball and walking their babies and dogs, they were, to borrow from a poet, "making the best of their way back to life/ And living...
Military discipline was a stopgap; serious reform, with long-reaching consequences, was already under way. The London Co. had reorganized itself as the Virginia Co. of London in 1609, and over the next dozen years settlers and backers alike realized the colony could not be run as an overseas mining...
For those viewing the war in Iraq from afar, reports from inside the Green Zone can make this ravaged city look almost serene. Protected on two sides by the wide, caramel-colored waters of the Tigris and surrounded by high cement walls, the 4-sq.-mi. Green Zone (officially called...
Another burial ground outside the walls of the fort, dating from 1610 to 1630, holds some 80 individuals. From them, forensic anthropologists at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington determined that the average male inhabitant died at age 25, with women living slightly longer. (At the time, Kelso...